Best New Books: Week of November 3, 2020

The following books, published this week, received starred reviews in Booklist. Want to read our starred reviews before the books go on sale? Subscribe to Booklist!

Adult Fiction

★ The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020, edited by Diana Gabaldon and John Joseph Adams

★ The Best American Short Stories 2020, edited by Heidi Pitlor and Curtis Sittenfeld

★ Double Agent, by Tom Bradby

★ Miss Benson’s Beetle, by Rachel Joyce

★ A Mother’s Goodbye, by Kate Hewitt

★ The Museum of Forgotten Memories, by Anstey Harris

★ Papaya Salad, by Elisa Macellari and translated by Carla Roncalli Di Montorio

★ The Right Kind of Fool, by Sarah Loudin Thomas

★ The Russian Pink, by Matthew Hart

★ Things We Didn’t Say, by Amy Lynn Green

★ To Be a Man, by Nicole Krauss

★ Tsarina, by Ellen Alpsten

★ White Ivy, by Susie Yang

Adult Nonfiction

★ The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them through a War, by Delphine Minoui and translated by Lara Vergnaud

★ The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano, by Dan Moller

Youth Fiction

★ Bigger than a Dream, by Jef Aerts, illustrated by Marit Törnqvist, and translated by David Colmer

★ The Little Mermaid, by Jerry Pinkney